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Here is something to ponder and chew on:
Monday Musings - We Have Forgotten
When
we lose the sense of sin, when we fail to appreciate the eternal value
of embracing suffering, when we no longer give any thought to making
reparation for our sins and the sins of the world, evil triumphs and
souls are lost:
“We moderns shrink from
pain; we shun all that can afflict body or mind. We have forgotten that we were
saved by the Body’s agony and the Mind’s torture. We have forgotten that the
problem of evil was solved by ropes, whips and thorns, by nails that were
pounded through the flesh of God and by three hours of anguish such as no other
human has or ever will know.
We have forgotten that pain has a sacred purpose;
that all suffering can be and should be sublimated into Sacrifice – His
Sacrifice. We have forgotten that we are Christians – members of a Body whose
Head is thorn-crowned! We have forgotten that since there is sin, there must be
suffering that will atone.”
(From
God, A Woman and the Way by Father M.
Raymond, O.C.S.O.)
As I was at th hospital last night standing vigil by the bedside of my sister in law, who is dying...I was reminded of how much suffering we do at the end. We fight for life to the very end...it's a valiant battle.
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